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Old Mar 15, 2003 | 03:36 PM
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Racing beat springs?

does anyone have any experience with these springs? What performance differences did you guys find? Does anyone happen to have any pictures of their cars with them?

Thanks, Matt
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Old Mar 15, 2003 | 04:28 PM
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Do a search. I wrote a comparo between the RB and the H&R springs...
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Old Mar 15, 2003 | 06:26 PM
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dude I couldn't find your thread.. I looked for ever, at least it seemed like it. could you just sum up what you found in the comparo? Which is better?
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Old Mar 15, 2003 | 08:25 PM
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a lot of the old stuff disappeared about a month ago.
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Old Mar 15, 2003 | 10:57 PM
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Set your search for older than 30 days, go back to the "beginning" if you have to...
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Old Mar 16, 2003 | 07:02 AM
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since I wanted to re-read Manny's comments anyway, here's the results of the search. Lots of good info here....

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/search...der=descending
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Old Mar 16, 2003 | 08:15 AM
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https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...g+beat+springs

For other FD owners' benefit, I bumped the thread, and stickied it...

Enjoy!

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Old Mar 20, 2003 | 10:37 AM
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I hate prgressive srpings becasue they make me feel liek I am driving a caddy, so I went with the RB, they drop more in the back too.
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Old Mar 22, 2003 | 04:39 AM
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I'm using the rb springs and koni yellows and guess what??? The car probably doesn't even pull more than .33 G's before scraping on the damn wheel housing...the entire time I've owned my FD (the entire 2k miles it was running) I was never able to do ANY cornering, I don't know what's the deal but the car sits 4" off the ground in the front and top of the left wheel well is scraped all to ****...I weigh about 220lbs, so maybe that's why???
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Old Mar 22, 2003 | 09:17 AM
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Chronos, either your bathroom scale is lying to you, by under estimating your weight or your RB springs are made of cheap & thin coat hanger wire.
My scale has me at 225 lbs. (I look like more than that) , I have the RB springs with the Bilstein struts (stock R1), 17 wheels and it does not rub anywhere at ALL and I can pull more G's than an Iraki MIG.
So you must have either worn out struts, defective springs or you weight more than a Sumo wrestler.
No offense intended, J/K.
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Old Mar 22, 2003 | 06:00 PM
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Saw a car today at the track with new RB springs. RB must have changed something. The guy's car sits low up front. Stock R1 shocks were made by Showa of Japan. The Bilsteins came on the Type RS ('99) FD Rx7s.
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 10:49 AM
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so whets the general consensus on the racing beat springs? Or will this turn out like the front mount vs. stock mount debate?

Matt
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 04:20 PM
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you know...come to think of it when I brought in my car to our local rotary shop he noted that my front left koni yellow shock was leaking. I thought it was just because I hit a huge bump in the freeway at 110mph, but come to think of it, the shock might have been bad the entire time and that was just the death blow!
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 04:25 PM
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btw, SleepR1, how have you coolant temps been around the track with all that hot air blowing on your radiator???
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Old Mar 24, 2003 | 05:39 PM
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